I'm Brian Rountree I’m an experienced technology leader, web developer, illustrator and motion graphic designer. I am passionate about product development, people, teams, developer happiness, data visualization and mentoring people. I like to build for the web and make things beautiful as well as functional. Experienced technical leader, obsessed with developer happiness and creating healthy, inclusive and high performing teams. Cross functional leadership experience across Engineering, UX, Product Management, Developer Relations and Ops. Deep knowledge and hands on experience with large scale web, complex web applications, IaaS and PaaS through OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. Experience building some of the largest consumer web properties in the world as well as some of the largest and most complex infrastructure deployments.
Summary
Work Experience
EverQuote
Director of Consumer Experience Engineering
December 2018 - July 2019
Leading teams focused on building out our consumer facing applications and services
Wayfair
Associate Director of Engineering
May 2018 - November 2018
Helping teams create systems and applications to enable better customer outcomes
Glympse
Vice President Of Engineering
August 2017 - January 2018
Amazon Web Services
Senior Engineering Manager, AWS Mobile
October 2016 - May 2017
Supporting the engineering efforts for AWS Mobile Services including the AWS Device Farm
Hewlett-Packard
Director of Engineering, Developer Ecosystems, HP Helion Cloud
October 2015 - October 2016
My charter includes all of the User Interface engineering across the entire HP Helion Cloud Organization; our Developer Experience efforts (SDK’s, CLI’s, IDE integrations, Developer Portal, and CI/CD workflow); and our Service Marketplace. I have deep experience and passion for the UI and Developer Experience space. At Rackspace, I led the groups that built control panels, API’s, SDK’s, and internal support tools. I also built up Rackspace’s Developer Relations Group into a strong organization of nearly 30 developer evangelists. At Yahoo, I was one of the top front-end engineers / architects, and led the architecture and engineering for Open Social and Yahoo Finance. My teams include the Horizon team, the Developer Experience team, and the Marketplace team.
Rackspace
Director of Engineering, Racker Tools & Developer Relations
January 2011 - October 2015
Lead multiple cross functional teams (70 rackers) responsible for building out scalable, highly distributed web applications to enable Rackspace support staff to deliver "Fanatical Support" to Rackspace customers. Built out fully a staffed and capable Product Management team, six engineering teams and a dev/ops team. Utilizing cutting edge technologies like MongoDB, Elastic Search and AngularJS, these teams rebuilt our support tools from scratch. In addition to leading our internal tools development efforts, I also took on the responsibility for the Rackspace Developer Relations Group. Grew the DRG from 3 to 28 people in a period of 9 months. Focusing on key hires in the industry, I assembled a top notch team of SDK authors, Evangelists, API Documentation specialists and developer support roles. Oversaw the design and initial build of developer.rackspace.com as well as the more experimental http://rackerlabs.github.io/ Led the release of SDKs and starter kits for the Rackspace Open Cloud in Python, Ruby, .NET, Node and PHP. Oversaw the budget and travel of the evangelists speaking at conferences around the world and saw to the creation of actionable success metrics to measure the performance of the organization.
Yahoo! Inc.
Senior Architect, Y!OS
August 2010 - December 2010
Technical lead for front end architecture of the Yahoo! Open Social platform stack. Owns technical architecture for multiple current and future Yahoo! platforms and products.
Yahoo!
Front End Tech Lead, Yahoo! Finance
January 2008 - August 2010
Tasked with the Front End Tech Lead position for the new global Yahoo! Finance. Leading the development of XSLT, PHP, CSS, JS, HTML for the biggest and best finance web site on the planet. Playing with the big dogs now!
Yahoo!
Senior Technical Yahoo
January 2006 - January 2008
Front End Tech Lead for Yahoo! Shine. New Yahoo! Content/Social Media property. http://shine.yahoo.com. Front End Engineering tech lead on development of Yahoo! Tech http://tech.yahoo.com. Front End Engineering tech lead for Yahoo! Lifestyles currently working on a super secret stealth project. Front end architect for a number of Yahoo! properties.
SAIC
Portal User Experience Engineer
December 2004 - December 2005
Managed front end engineering tasks associated with maintaining an existing company intranet (accessed by 50.000 employees every day) Provide technical leadership for new feature development. Designed, built and deployed a semantically correct, standards-based set of html templates for the company intranet Created all the CSS to control the presentation of the new templates Mentored existing web team staff in areas such as Javascript development, AJAX, web standards, CSS, etc. User interface and front end engineering lead on 3 patented web applications for the Air Force
eAssist Global Solutions
UI Developer
December 2003 - December 2004
Viador
Manager, Western Region Consulting
January 2000 - December 2003
Projects
Yahoo Finance
Front End Engineering Architect
July 2010 - August 2010
Real Time Stock Quotes
Skills
Skills
Scalability
JavaScript
Web Applications
Cloud Computing
Web Services
Software Development
User Experience
Mobile Applications
Agile Methodologies
Distributed Systems
Continuous Integration
Web Development
User Interface Design
Product Management
Architecture
PHP
Node.js
HTML
Python
CSS
REST
Apache
LAMP
JSON
HTML 5
MySQL
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Leadership
APIs
Accessibility
OpenStack
DevOps
PaaS
Cloud Applications
IaaS
Adobe Creative Cloud
Web Application Design
Front-end